silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (01/06/90)
In article <1922@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) writes: >In article <5440094@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes: >> > >As for Usenet binaries, Steven Grimm has stated that LHARC source must > >be available before LHARC'd binaries are acceptable. When/if that happens, > >I would think that conservation of net bandwidth should make LHARC the > >preferred program. > > >well, at terminator.cc.umich.edu in atari/new directory, there is a file >called LHARCSRC.arc which looks like something worthwhile to look at... There are clearly sources floating around, but I think that Grimm's posting referred to the portability issue. I have the LHARC sources for MS-DOS, and they are mostly in assembler. I use LHARC for distributing MS-DOS software and I think it has some really great features, but not being able to run it under Unix is a tremendous inconvenience for me. This is probably true of anyone who runs archives on different kinds of computers. By the way, i haven't been using the ST version of LHARC, but the latest MS-DOS version, 1.13C, is super, especially with regard to compression ratio and the flexibility of self-extracting archives. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac